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1. COVID-19 metrics across parliamentary constituencies and districts in India

Author

Weiyu Wang, Jeffrey Blossom, Julie Kim, Priyanka deSouza, Weixing Zhang, Rockli Kim, Rakesh Sarwal, and S V Subramanian

Subjects
COVID-19, geographic precision, public policy, India, Mathematical geography. Cartography, GA1-1776
Abstract

In India, Parliamentary Constituencies (PCs) could serve as a regional unit of COVID-19 monitoring that facilitates evidence-based policy decisions. In this study, we presented the first estimates of COVID-19 cumulative cases and deaths per 100,000 population and the case fatality rate (CFR) between 7 January 2020 and 31 January 2021 across PCs and districts of India. We adopted a novel geographic information science-based methodology called crosswalk to estimate COVID-19 outcomes at the PC-level from district-level information. We found a substantial variation of COVID-19 burden within each state and across the country. Access to PC-level and district-level COVID-19 information can enhance both central and regional governmental accountability of safe reopening policies.

Published
2022
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2. Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium

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Antonella, Zanobetti, Patrick H, Ryan, Brent, Coull, Cole, Brokamp, Soma, Datta, Jeffrey, Blossom, Nathan, Lothrop, Rachel L, Miller, Paloma I, Beamer, Cynthia M, Visness, Howard, Andrews, Leonard B, Bacharier, Tina, Hartert, Christine C, Johnson, Dennis, Ownby, Gurjit K, Khurana Hershey, Christine, Joseph, Song, Yiqiang, Eneida A, Mendonça, Daniel J, Jackson, Heike, Luttmann-Gibson, Edward M, Zoratti, Anne L, Wright, Fernando D, Martinez, Christine M, Seroogy, James E, Gern, Diane R, Gold, and Zhouwen, Liu

Subjects
Socioeconomic Factors, Child, Preschool, Incidence, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Humans, Correction, Child, Asthma, United States, White People, Respiratory Sounds
Abstract

In the United States, Black and Hispanic children have higher rates of asthma and asthma-related morbidity compared with White children and disproportionately reside in communities with economic deprivation.To determine the extent to which neighborhood-level socioeconomic indicators explain racial and ethnic disparities in childhood wheezing and asthma.The study population comprised children in birth cohorts located throughout the United States that are part of the Children's Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup consortium. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) of asthma incidence, and logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios of early and persistent wheeze prevalence accounting for mother's education, parental asthma, smoking during pregnancy, child's race and ethnicity, sex, and region and decade of birth.Neighborhood-level socioeconomic indicators defined by US census tracts calculated as z scores for multiple tract-level variables relative to the US average linked to participants' birth record address and decade of birth. The parent or caregiver reported the child's race and ethnicity.Prevalence of early and persistent childhood wheeze and asthma incidence.Of 5809 children, 46% reported wheezing before age 2 years, and 26% reported persistent wheeze through age 11 years. Asthma prevalence by age 11 years varied by cohort, with an overall median prevalence of 25%. Black children (HR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.26-1.73) and Hispanic children (HR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.09-1.53) were at significantly increased risk for asthma incidence compared with White children, with onset occurring earlier in childhood. Children born in tracts with a greater proportion of low-income households, population density, and poverty had increased asthma incidence. Results for early and persistent wheeze were similar. In effect modification analysis, census variables did not significantly modify the association between race and ethnicity and risk for asthma incidence; Black and Hispanic children remained at higher risk for asthma compared with White children across census tracts socioeconomic levels.Adjusting for individual-level characteristics, we observed neighborhood socioeconomic disparities in childhood wheeze and asthma. Black and Hispanic children had more asthma in neighborhoods of all income levels. Neighborhood- and individual-level characteristics and their root causes should be considered as sources of respiratory health inequities.

Published
2023

3. Incidence rates of childhood asthma with recurrent exacerbations in the US Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program

Author

Rachel L. Miller, Holly Schuh, Aruna Chandran, Izzuddin M. Aris, Casper Bendixsen, Jeffrey Blossom, Carrie Breton, Carlos A. Camargo, Glorisa Canino, Kecia N. Carroll, Sarah Commodore, José F. Cordero, Dana M. Dabelea, Assiamira Ferrara, Rebecca C. Fry, Jody M. Ganiban, James E. Gern, Frank D. Gilliland, Diane R. Gold, Rima Habre, Marion E. Hare, Robyn N. Harte, Tina Hartert, Kohei Hasegawa, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, Daniel J. Jackson, Christine Joseph, Jean M. Kerver, Haejin Kim, Augusto A. Litonjua, Carmen J. Marsit, Cindy McEvoy, Eneida A. Mendonça, Paul E. Moore, Flory L. Nkoy, Thomas G. O’Connor, Emily Oken, Dennis Ownby, Matthew Perzanowski, Katherine Rivera-Spoljaric, Patrick H. Ryan, Anne Marie Singh, Joseph B. Stanford, Rosalind J. Wright, Robert O. Wright, Antonella Zanobetti, Edward Zoratti, Christine C. Johnson, P.B. Smith, K.L. Newby, L.P. Jacobson, D.J. Catellier, R. Gershon, D. Cella, A. Alshawabkeh, J. Aschner, S. Merhar, C. Ren, A. Reynolds, R. Keller, G. Pryhuber, A. Duncan, A. Lampland, R. Wadhawan, C. Wagner, M. Hudak, D. Mayock, L. Walshburn, S.L. Teitelbaum, A. Stroustrup, L. Trasande, C. Blair, L. Gatzke-Kopp, M. Swingler, J. Mansbach, J. Spergel, H. Puls, M. Stevenson, C. Bauer, S. Deoni, C. Duarte, A. Dunlop, A. Elliott, L. Croen, L. Bacharier, G. O’Connor, M. Kattan, R. Wood, G. Hershey, D. Ownby, I. Hertz-Picciotto, A. Hipwell, M. Karagas, C. Karr, A. Mason, S. Sathyanarayana, B. Lester, B. Carter, C. Neal, L. Smith, J. Helderman, L. Leve, J. Ganiban, J. Neiderhiser, S. Weiss, R. Zeiger, R. Tepper, K. Lyall, R. Landa, S. Ozonoff, R. Schmidt, S. Dager, R. Schultz, J. Piven, H. Volk, R. Vaidya, R. Obeid, C. Rollins, K. Bear, S. Pastyrnak, M. Lenski, M. Msall, J. Frazier, L. Washburn, A. Montgomery, C. Barone, P. McKane, N. Paneth, M. Elliott, J. Herbstman, S. Schantz, C. Porucznik, R. Silver, E. Conradt, M. Bosquet-Enlow, K. Huddleston, N. Bush, R. Nguyen, T. O'Connor, and M. Samuels-Kalow

Subjects
Immunology, Immunology and Allergy
Published
2023

4. Precipitation and lung health in children with asthma

Author

Nicholas Nassikas, Sheryl Rifas-Shiman, Heike Gibson, Kelly Chen, Jeffrey Blossom, Emily Oken, Diane Gold, and Mary Rice

Subjects
General Earth and Planetary Sciences, General Environmental Science
Published
2022

5. Demographic disparities in the tobacco retail environment in Boston: a citywide spatial analysis.

Author

Duncan DT, Kawachi I, Melly SJ, Blossom J, Sorensen G, and Williams DR

Subjects
Boston, Commerce, Geographic Information Systems, Humans, Marketing methods, Social Class, Spatial Analysis, Tobacco Products economics, Tobacco Use Disorder complications, Tobacco Use Disorder mortality, Universities economics, Universities statistics & numerical data, Poverty Areas, Students statistics & numerical data, Tobacco Products supply & distribution, Tobacco Use Disorder ethnology
Published
2014
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